Engaged Emancipation

Viac o knihe

In the "Mok op ya" (also known as the "Yogav si ha"), an eleventh-century Sanskrit poetic text, the great Vedic philosopher Vasi ha counsels his young protege Lord R ma about the ways of the world through sixty-four stories designed to bring R ma from ignorance to wisdom. Much beloved, this work reflects the philosophy of Kashmir aivism. Precisely because all worldly pursuits are dreamlike and fiction-like, the human soul must first come to an experience of non-dualistic, mind-only metaphysics, and after attaining this wisdom, promote moral activism. "Engaged Emancipation" is a wide-ranging consideration of this work and the philosophical and spiritual questions it addresses by philosophers, Sanskritists, and scholars of religion, literature, and science. Contributors allow readers to walk with R ma as his melancholy and angst transform into connectivity, peace, and spiritual equipoise."